Remus

[blaise_42]

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From: blaise_42
Subject: Re: Remus
Reply To: [Yahoo! #7306] Re: James and Sirius (and Remus).
Date: 8/20/00 3:39 am  (ET)

<<It beats me why the people reminiscing at The Three Broomsticks about
James and Sirius, and that fat little boy who tagged after them, didn't
say one word about Remus being another of the clique. If McGonagall,
say, had mentioned him by first name only, Harry wouldn't have found
out ahead of schedule that Lupin had known his father.>>

Clever - I was about to leap in and say that then Harry would have known
that Remus had been friends with his father, but you've outwitted me. Hmm
.. well, this has troubled me for a while, because the best explanation
I can come up with is that Remus was one of many 'lesser' members of
the clique, not really worthy of note, and that sends half my stories
down the drain. I think, honestly, that JKR didn't mention it because
she didn't want to give away that Remus and Sirius were close friends,
and she decided not to mention him at all, saving that revelation for
later. Perhaps she didn't hit on your first-name idea!

Love your idea of Professor Trelawney pursuing Remus, but I think he
was absent from the feast because it was the full moon.

<<WHY does he take off the day before instead of the day after, when he
is in Worse Condition the day after???>>

Now I'm confused. How do you know that he takes the day before the full
moon off and not the one after? What have I missed?

And I think he does take time off after the full moon. At least, in PoA
he is away on a Friday and then comes back to work on a Monday (chapter
9). That's sufficient time for him to have a day off before and after
the full moon. During the Christmas holidays he can take off as much
time as he needs, I suppose.

I think the idea of Remus being in much worse shape the day after is
mostly a construct of fanfic authors (mea culpa!).

~Blaise.